25 aprile 1936

The site-specific installation was conceived for the external façade of the building overlooking Via Masaccio, on the MAXXI plaza. Massimo Bartolini, who frequently investigates the theme of habitation and construction, undermining commonly held certainties regarding the perception of space, uses scaffolding to anchor a rectangular structure composed of 250 lamps. During the inaugural performance on 12 February 2008, a number of lamps were allowed to fall in clusters, revealing, as the caption to the work reads, “ANCHE OGGI NIENTE” (EVEN TODAY, NOTHING). The phrase is a free quotation from of an idea of the writer Cesare Pavese, noted in his diary "This Business of Living" on 25 April 1936: “Quest’oggi, niente”, Today, nothing.